Guess I can throw in my tats here too. Both of them depict some of the gear I have collected for years so are really a part of me in more than one way. The firefighter one (my first) was done by the tatoo artist based on my concepts while the diving tat was completely my art work ( save for the actual tatooing of course).
My Great Aunt Marlene is one of the best people I was ever fortunate enough to know. I didn't really have "official" grandparents growing up because on my moms side, her mother passed away early on, and her father is an a****** so I won't talk to him. On my dads side, both parents were losers to the best of my knowledge, which resulted in him being a loser father to me, and no grandparents.
Back to my Aunt Marlene... She stepped in as my sudo Grandmother for the first 19 years of my life. I couldn't have asked for a finer person to be so close a part of my life. When she was diagnosed with cancer it took less than a year for the disease to take her life. It was the most devastating loss of my life.
Despite the knowledge that she was probably cursing me out from heaven, I designed a large tattoo to grace my upper back. One day I woke up from a dead sleep and felt like drawing, without a single eraser mark, I designed the angel wings that now sit upon each shoulder down to about the middle of my back. Between the two wings is her name, written in Hebrew, down my spine.
I hope to be half the person she was, caring, loving, and a great chef!
There is my story! My other tat is simple, I got bored in history class and drew my name in one single letter, tribal style.
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